Fly-paper holder.



w G. P. STONER & F. B. TROUT.

FLY PAPER HOLDER.

APPLIUATION FILED 1x21251909.

959,898 Patented May 31-, 1910.

WITNESSES: .INVENTORS',

ChrQsTion F. SToner. J Fran/4 Trout,

re earns CHRISTIAN F. STONER AND FRANK B. TROUT, OF LANCASTER,PENNSYLVANIA.

FLY-PAPER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHRISTIAN F. STONER and FRANK B. TROUT, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster andState of Pennsylvania,

have inventeu certain new and useful Im-' movements in Ely-PaperHolders, of which the following is a specification, reference be ing hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to a combined holder for fly-paper, and has forits object to provide a cheap, handy and reliable holder for fly-paper,which may be hung upon the wall and which is provided with a folding anddetachable shelf, upon which is retained the fly-paper (upon which theflies become entangled) out of sight, and also obviating all danger ofother objects coming into contact with the paper.

IVhile another object of our invention is to provide a novelty of thisclass in which the back is provided with a suitable clamp for retaininga card, upon which may be dis played appropriate advertising matter.

lVith these and other objects in view our invention consists in certainconstruction and combination of parts as will hereinafter be fullydescribed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this application, and in which like figures of reference referto corresponding parts in all of the views, but it is fully understoodthat while we have described our invention as shown in the accompanyingdrawings, that we do not confine ourselves to the exact design as shown,as slight changes may be made in the arrangement of the parts withoutdeparting from the spirit of the in vention.

In the drawings :I*igure 1, is a perspective view of the device with theshelf closed. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the device with the shelfopen and the paper partly cut away to show the method of attaching theshelf.

Referring to the drawings of our device which we have here illustratedas being made of resilient wire, but which may be made of any suitablematerial, the same consists of a rectangular frame composed of the topbar 1, the bottom bar 2, and the side bars 3, and

4:, all joined together at their ends, and forming the frame. The topbar 1, being also provided with the rods 5, and 6, terminating at theirupper ends in the ring 7.

While the side bars 3, and 4:, are provided with the brace rods 8, whichform extending sides and to which and to the side bars 3 and 4 aresecured the bracket arms 9; said bracket arms 9, being formed at theirends with the studs 10, and 11, projecting at right angles to the bodyof said bracket arms.

The shelf is formed of a rectangular frame, the side rods 12, of whichare extended and provided with the eyes 13, which are extended to engagethe studs 10, thereby hinging the shelf to the frame, and the side rods12, are supported with the shelf in a horizontal manner by the studs 11,upon which they rest; while when not in use the shelf may be folded backagainst the frame, as shown in Fig. 1, of the drawings, or by springingthe eyes 13, out of engagement with the studs 10, the shelf may beremoved for cleaning, etc.

To retain the fiy-paper in place upon the shelf we provide said shelfwith the spring clamps 14, which securely retain the paper betweenthemselves and the rods 12. And we further provide the frame sides 3,and 4, with similar spring clamps 15, upon their rear sides for thepurpose of holding the card 16, upon which may be displayed suitableadvertising matter as desired.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In a fly-paper holder, in combination with asupporting frame, of hinge studs and bracket arms carried by said frame,a paperholding shelf formed with rearwardly proj ecting ends, eyesformed in said projecting ends and adapted to engage said studs, theforward ends of said bracket arms formed with hooked ends for thepurpose of supporting said shelf.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

CHRISTIAN F. STONER. FRANK B. TROUT. lVitnesses:

CHAS. I. BOWMAN, MABEL L. LEFEVRE.

